We had a great district meet this weekend. I look forward to what we can do at regionals. The girls placed 4th overall and the boys placed 5th overall. We had 31 personal best times on the team this weekend!
Our regional qualifiers are:
Morgan Erzal-200 Medley Relay Champion, 5th place 100 Fly, 5th Place 200 Free Relay, and 3rd Place 100 back (New Letterman)
Katie Grady-200 Medley Relay Champion, 5th Place 200 Free Relay. (New Letterman)
Lulla Kiwinda-5th Place 400 Free Relay. She also went a best time split as lead off and a best time in the 50 free and 100 breast in prelims.
Allyssa Rodriquez-5th place 400 Free Relay. She had a best time in the 100 back.
Sam Sutton-200 Medley Relay Champion, 200 IM Champion and a best time, 5th Place 200 Free Relay, 2nd Place 100 Breast (New Letterman)
Jordan Tambara-5th Place 400 Free Relay
Ashlynn Waddill-5th Place 400 Free Relay and a best time in the 200 free.
Katherine Worthington-200 Medley Relay Champion, 5th place 50 Free, 4th place 100 Free, and 5th Place 200 Free Relay. She had to do a swim-off in the 50 free and bettered her time from the previous swim. Way to go, Senior!
Steven Leal-8th place 100 free with a best time and finally breaking 55!, 4th place 200 Free relay, 6th place 400 Free Relay. He also had a best time in prelims in the 200 free.
Tyler Petty-7th place 200 Medley Relay with a great split of 29.7, 7th place 500 free and dropping 19 seconds from his seed time, 6th place 400 Free Relay. He also went a best time in the 100 back going a 1:02.69.
Clay Shriver-1M Dive Champion, 7th place 200 Medley Relay, 4th place 200 Free Relay, and 6th place 400 Free Relay. He broke his own school record in 1 M Diving with 322.05 points!
Jackson Wahman-4th place 200 Free Relay, 6th place 400 Free Relay. He went best times in the 100 fly and 50 free in prelims.
Shimshon Zeevi-7th place 200 Medley Relay, 7th place 50 free with a best time in prelims by over a second, and 4th place 200 Free relay. He also went a best time in the 100 breast in prelims.
Other Outstanding Swims
Austin Siu-He went a best time in the 200 IM and 100 breast and made finals in the 100 breast. he placed 8th.
Alan Smith-Best times in both the 100 free and 100 breast.
Blake Bennett-He had a great anchor leg in the 200 Medley splitting a 25 and he also had best times in the 200 free dropping 5 seconds and in the 100 back dropping 4 seconds!
Sean Eli-He had amazing swims in the 200 free and 500 free dropping 5 and 14 seconds respectively!
Andrew Alsina-He had best times in the 50 and 100 free with almost 2 second time drops in both.
Dorian Chavez-He had best times in the 200 IM and 100 Fly.
Krishna Parikh-She dropped 3 seconds in her 100 fly and also had a best time in her 50 free.
I'm proud of all the Ranger swims we had. The team was there for each other cheering and laughing and it was a great thing to see. Now it's time to focus on Regionals coming up on 2/10 and 2/11. GO RANGERS!
Full meet results can be found for this and all meets on the Meet Schedule page.
Coach Murphy
Varsity Promotion
Congrats to Blake Bennett - a current team member who was promoted on Dec 5, 2011 from Junior Varsity to Varsity. Please join us in congratulating Blake for his work in the pool this fall to earn this achievement!
CC TISCA Meet Summary
The Vista Ridge Swim Team had a challenging meet on Nov 18-19 at the Corpus TISCA. Vista was among 50 plus teams at the meet which gave our young team some great competitive experience. Our swimmers swam well for the middle of the season without any kind of taper.
Steven Leal and Tyler Petty both went personal bests in the 200 Free in prelims. Swimming side by side definitely increased their motivation.
Jackson Wahman had a great 50 Free breaking 26 seconds again and swimming it cold.
Shimshon Zeevi also went a best time in the 50 Free and helped push Austin Siu to a season best in the 100 Breast.
Despite injury and unexpectedly having to perform a new dive, Clay Shriver was able to make cut after cut in the 1 Meter Diving rounds and placed 11th overall.
Andrew Alsina and Blake Bennett provided strong support in the Boys' 200 Medley Relay (Petty, Siu, Alsina, and Bennett) and 200 Free Relay (Bennett, Alsina, Siu, and Petty).
Ashlynn Waddill held to her best time in the 100 Back and also broke 30 seconds in her leg on the Girls' 200 Free Relay (Erzal, Grady, Waddill, Doye).
Katie Grady went a season best in the 500 Free and showed more consistency in her swim.
Morgan Erzal made the B final in the 100 Fly and 500 Free and did well considering these are her off events. Morgan placed 14th in 100 Fly and and 15th in 500 Free overall.
Sam Sutton had a rough start in prelims but was able to make the A final in the 50 Free and 100 Fly and dropped time from prelims in both events to place 5th in 50 Free and 6th in 100 Fly overall.
The Girls' 200 Medley Relay (Erzal, Sutton, Doye, Worthington) placed 2nd in the B Final (8th overall) and dropped over a second and a half from their prelims time. Lizzy Doye went a best time in her 50 fly split and Katherine Worthington had a great 50 free anchor leg. Sam Sutton dominated her 50 breast leg in the B final - at 31 seconds, she swam her breaststroke leg over 2 seconds faster than any other B final relay team's breaststroker.
Full meet results can be found for this and all meets on the Meet Schedule page.
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